Batteries can bring clean energy to those who need it most
By accelerating the deployment of battery storage – especially in neglected communities – the administration can bring the benefits of clean energy to those who need it most.
building resilient communities
Bringing Community to the Table in Climate Adaptation
Transition Longfellow connected climate change to the things our neighbors love and care about the most – their children’s health, their chickens and vegetable gardens, their homes, and favorite businesses.
Reinhabitation: Body, Place, Bioregion
Confused by the story of separation, many people have tried to seek certainty, control and prediction, rather than embracing uncertainty and humbly accepting the limits of what can be known.
Telling the Story of the Digitize my Community Initiative
With the social media tool in our hands, we can transform, build resilience and achieve sustainable development for our various communities.
Cooperation and Chocolate: The Story of One Colombian Community’s Quest for Peace
Two decades after its declaration of neutrality, the community still carries on its peace crusade. Despite many difficulties, they are hanging on to their collective work thanks to the precious cacao cultivation.
From global drag to radical regionalization
For regionalization, not everything has to be done on a small scale or regionally. It is a search for the optimal scale in terms of transport, energy use, production options, mineral cycle and many other aspects.
Bottom-up Biodiversity
Whether connecting schools to farms in France, daylighting rivers in Mexico, or rewilding grasslands in Patagonia, we’re learning how to ‘do’ biodiversity well.
Racism in finance has sparked a grassroots response. Meet the Boston Ujima Project.
Economic racism is a real issue that denies people the opportunity to support themselves and their families, start businesses, or build financial legacies — such as homeownership — that pass from one generation to the next.
Why My Older, Smaller Library Was Better
Only by reaching out to the community at large can we fully understand how a neighborhood connects with the key resources in its midst.
We Don’t Live in a World of Cartoon Villains
There are people at every part of that spectrum who care about building local resilience. The Strong Towns approach is radical, but not in a way that fits into ideologues’ narrative boxes.
Solidarity Forever: Initiatives in the Global South as a model of the post-COVID-19 solidarity economy
“Unlike identity, solidarity is not something you have, it is something you do – a set of actions taken toward a common goal…[It] is the practice of helping people realize that they – that is to say, we – are all in this together.”
A Pathway to Meaningful Work for Former Inmates
The Compost Cooperative is a worker-owned food scraps pickup service that empowers those who have been incarcerated by providing fulfilling work that allows for agency and economic independence.
